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Stephen Mann
February 21, 2013 at 4:07 am in reply to: WAV bye bye

I use wav files frequently.
Try running one through MediaInfo to make sure it’s a compatible wav file.

Here’s one of mine that I just used in a project:
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General
Complete name : D:\Documents\Projects\SFX\Ducks.wav
Format : Wave
File size : 51.6 MiB
Duration : 1mn 34s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 4 608 Kbps

Audio
ID : 0
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 1mn 34s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 4 608 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 96.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Stream size : 51.6 MiB (100%)
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You haven’t installed a codec pack, have you?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 21, 2013 at 4:01 am in reply to: Audio “ghost” – maybe hidden track or something?

Is he unwanted audio recorded, I.E. it’s the same audio every time you play it, or is it always different?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 10:35 pm in reply to: DVD Architect 5.2 burn failures

Is this a new batch of blank DVD’s?

Who Really Makes the Disc?

Realize that most media is produced by a relatively small number of factories, located in several different places. These factories are mostly present in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China and India. There are more, but those are the largest ones. The best media generally comes from Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. The worst typically comes from China and Malaysia.

The blank disc brand name on the package means almost nothing. Apple is a great brand, but they do not make their own discs, instead outsourcing to a company like Mitsubishi Chemicals. Common companies like Memorex, Maxell and Imation all outsource to media vendors. Mitsubishi also makes the discs for Verbatim, etc.

It is the media ID that is important, as it reveals the disc manufacturer. Unfortunately, this is not written on packaging or anywhere else. Companies want consumers to be oblivious to this sort of behind-the-scenes information. The Media ID is also used by your DVD burner to determine the burn parameters which includes the maximum burn speed.

I recommend that you use the freeware “DVD Identifier” to read the media ID to learn who *really* made the discs in your box:
https://www.afterdawn.com/software/cd_dvd/dvd_tools/dvd_identifier.cfm

Also, note that DVD burners *do* wear out. Well, the lasers do. I can usually get 500 discs on a DVD drive before it starts flaking out.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 8:30 pm in reply to: Not responding

Yes, we used to be able to say that Vegas never crashed.

Vegas has always been rock-solid. It wasn’t until Version 10 that the program started relying on third party software or drivers. Before V10, Vegas controlled everything. As of V10, Vegas started encoding AVCHD by sending commands to the GPU over OFX. Also as new formats were becoming popular, Sony utilized third party codecs more.

If it’s any consolation, just browse the other editing forums. They all crash.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Upgrade question!

Vegas benefits most from processor power. Lots of it. If you can, upgrade the PC.

The better graphics card wouldn’t add as much as the processor upgrade. Remember, GPU support is just that – support. I think it was added to improve performance of marginal PC’s, and when you get into the i7 and dual-processor Xeon’s, the processor can render the frames itself faster than the GPU. In other words, at some point you pass a line of diminishing returns.

I run 3 monitors on two of my systems. On one I have two GPU cards, and on the other I use a USB display adapter. If you go with two GPU cards, make them the same card, or at least the same family. DO NOT mix brands of video cards. Doing so requires two different video drivers and possibly adds problems that are difficult to diagnose. If you install two identical video cards then Windows only needs one driver. If you go with the USB video adapter, note that it does work just fine for text and static images, but it would never keep up with the frame rate of video.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 4:13 pm in reply to: Drop shadow on a video layer?

Why wouldn’t a drop shadow on the PNG image work?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 4:12 pm in reply to: Blu-ray background audio not playing to end.

I rarely do BD discs, but I’ve never run into this. Have you tried running the disc on a different player?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 4:07 pm in reply to: I am changings still pictures form Jpeg to Png.

If I posted my current photo I would scare women and little kids.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Footage goes out of sync after creating multi camera track

How are you doing the sync? Are you simply sliding a track to match a significant action or sound on each track? Are you stretching or shrinking (CTRL-Drag) a track to match end points?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 19, 2013 at 3:50 pm in reply to: masking track

What about saving the track with lots of events on it to a separate veg file, then embed the veg file on your main project. Then you can treat the embed as a single event.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

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